Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-25

II. e.: In the name OF the soldiers and people
OF Nebraska, / respectfully but most earnestly
protest against the return or the rebel flags
captured by our armies In the late war. In
Ihat struggle we were right and they were
wrong. To return these emblems OF treason
would reverse this sacred truth, and the next
act OF humiliation would be for us TO apollo
Elze Tor having captured and retained them so
long. The lessons Of the late war must not
AND Will not be reversed. The people are in
dignant at this proposed return OF these 1sgs,
and they redeclare with united voice and re.
neWed emphasis that treason must be forever
Vdious.
(signed) JOHN NJ. THAYHR, Governor.
New York, June 1s.-A Washington spe-
e,al to the Evening Post says that Adjt. Gen.
Drum, In answer TO the query as to the re-
turn OF flags, standards and colors which we're
captured from confederates during the war,
said: I'VE are going to return them all to
the states, north and south. The president
recommended 1t to be done, and I Am now
having full lists made Of all the trophies in
the possession OF the department, and I'm q
short time we shall have the whole collection
SO assorted and separated that We shall be
able to forward to every state in the unien
whatever flags belonging to state vslunteers
fell into the hands Of the federal army and
into possession OF the war department"
oHIo's STAND.
WASHINGTON, June Is AT the request of
Gov. Foraker Of Ohio, Gen. Boynton to-day
selected Hon. Samuel Shallabarger and Hon,
Gee. i. Boutwell, TO take charge OF the case
regarding the rebel flags for the state Of Ohio.
lhey were preparing to file application for a
mandamus, but the letter Of the president
rendered this action unnecessary.
About thirty posts OF the state Of Illinois
sent protests TO Gov. Foraker, asking him to
telegraph President Cleveland the same.
A large number OF q. A. X. men called upon
Gov. Martin, of Kansas, who sent q Telegram
TO President Cleveland, protesting In the
name OF the citizens Of Kansas against the
action az an insult to heroes dead and an out
rage to surviving comrades. He added that
no onfcer OF the government had legal or
moral authority to surrender the flags.
A resolution was presented TO the Michigan
legislature calling upon the president to re-
scfnd his order.
The department commander OF California
tHlegraPhed the commander-in-chief protest
ing against the return OF flags, and asking the
institution oflegal proceedings to prevent 1t.
AN APPROVING SEAL.
NKw YORK, June 16.--The Post SAYS: A
dispatch from Washington to the Baltimore
Sun OF this morning quotes "a gentleman Of
prominence In political ~circles'' AS SAYING:
"lbe order is one OF the bravest, wisest and
most patriotic actions ever performed by the
executive OF a great people. BY a stroke OF
his pen the president has done more to unite
the states and confirm the union than all
precedent proclamations and legislation.
There never can be & united people SO long as
the cenquerors In n civil war glsry over the
conquered, and anything which keeps alive
the feeling of a once existing sectional hatred
should be wiped out. The act of the presi-
dent is brave, because IL has already aroused
the rage OF professional office-seeking soldier
organizations and partisan journals, which
seem, in many cares, to have no other excuse
for their being than to keep alive and be-
queath from father TO son the never. dying
spirit OF hatred.n